Events
Local Branch Calendar
A full annual list of meetings and events across the whole year ahead that we aim to keep updated:
2025
London Co-op Party Council: 21 January? (assumed date)
Co-op Party Policy Consultation: likely late January to early June
Branch Meeting: 19 February (Policy Consultation)
London Co-op Party Conference: February? (assumed date)
London Co-op Party Council: 11 March? (AGM) (assumed date)
UK Local Elections: 1 May - County Council Election in Epsom and Ewell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections
Branch AGM: 21 May
Co-operative Group AGM: 17 May? (assumed date)
London Co-op Party Council: 10 June? (assumed date)
Co-op Party Local Government Conference: normally June? (assumed date)
Coop Party AGM: 27 June? (assumed date)
Co-operatives Fortnight: likely to be late June to early July? (assumed date) https://www.uk.coop/get-involved/campaigns/co-op-fortnight-landing
International Day of Co-operatives: 6 July https://www.un.org/en/observances/cooperatives-day
Co-op Party online Summer School: Early August? (assumed date) https://party.coop/events/?
Carshalton Eco-Fair: 25 August https://www.ecolocal.org.uk/ecofair/
Co-op Party Equalities Conference online: Early September? (assumed date)
London Co-op Party Council: 9 September? (assumed date)
Fairtrade Fortnight: 8-21 September? (assumed date) https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-fortnight/ Local information here: https://fairtradeinsutton.wordpress.com/
Branch Meeting: 17 September
London Co-op Party Council: 11 November? (assumed date)
Branch Meeting: 19 November (Usually Conference Report Back)
Other activity and information sources for events are below:
There continues to be weekly “Co-operation Live” online events for Co-op Party members which are put on most weeks of the year now and can be viewed here.
Members can join the Co-op Party WhatSapp notification group here.
Co-op News is a useful source of articles for future policy debates. As well as being a hard copy publication it is online here. It is also on Twitter here and on Facebook here. You can also subscribe for a regular email.
The Cooperative Group holds regular live events here. Our homepage also has details of all their democratic processes you can take part in
Below are upcoming and past events, meetings and campaigns we are locally involved with
Upcoming events
Fairtrade and Climate Justice
We are currently supporting the campaign over Fairtrade and Climate Justice. You can sign the community declaration here.
Stop Fossil Fuel Companies blocking Climate Action
This campaign is being shared by Sutton Community Fairtrade Group. Transform Trade has taken over Traidcraft. This campaign is part of the effort to fight multinationals being able to sue governments for losses because of their efforts in the battle against climate change? Several local co-operators were involved in the anti-TPP campaigns in the past largely because of the ISDS clauses.
Tell your MP: it's time to #ExitECT
Right now, the UK is a member of a treaty that allows oil and gas companies to sue Governments for trying to phase out fossil fuels. Climate change is one of the biggest crises of our lifetime but meaningful action is being blocked by this outdated agreement. Over the past two years, 9 countries have announced they’re leaving the climate-blocking Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). The UK needs to be next. Ask your MP to write to the Minister and demand we leave the ECT to meet our climate goals. You can take action here
Local Policy Review
There is no national policy consultation so we can spend the year updating the The Co-operative Agenda for Sutton local policy document. Further documents that can assist with this are the national Co-op Party Build your Own Co-op Manifesto page and the London Co-op party's Common Ground Manifesto
Past events
General Election
Local members campaigned in the General Election held on 4th July 2024.
Campaign Events were easy to find by going here.
Thank you for your support in the General Election. You voted for change and all of us acting together achieved it.
As a result of your support there are now a record 43 Labour & Co-operative MPs along with 369 Labour MP's to provide 412 MPs supporting a Labour & Co-operative Government. 21 Labour & Co-operative MPs and Peers have also been appointed to the Labour Front Bench. A full list is of those 43 MPs is here and they can be followed online here.
2024 London Mayor and London Assembly Elections
There were GLA elections on Thursday 2 May 2024.
The London Co-op Party Election Campaign Launch was Saturday 9 March. Details were here.
Sadiq Khan was comortably re-elected for a third term. His Manifesto is here and the London Co-op party Manifesto: "5 Mutual Missions for London" was launched on 4 April here.
Maddie Henson was the Labour & Coo-operative candidate for Croydon & Sutton and halved the Tory majority.
Carshalton Eco-Fair
This was held on 28 August 2023 and Sutton Co-op Party members helped on both the two local Labour Party stalls as well as Fairtrade and other stalls. More details here.
2023 Policy Consultation
The branch recently sent a full submission to the 2023 Co-op party policy consultation on housing which is set out here.
Sutton Council 2022 Local Elections
Sutton Co-op Party sponsored candidates alongside the local Labour Party some as Labour & Co-operative and some as just Labour. They all stood on a joint Manifesto with Labour here and the local Party also published a Co-operative Agenda for Sutton here. The 2022 results for the 3 officially designated Labour and Co-operative candidates are here.
Meetings
We hold regular meetings. These used to be at Hill House in Carshalton, but at present we are meeting online on Zoom